Blessings to you this new year! Chances are, the start of a new calendar hasn’t changed the circumstances we were living in 2020. Although I believe better times are coming, I know I’ve struggled battling frustration and fear with all that’s happening around us. One of the experiences are family had been going through the […]
Contemporary Romance of Christmases Past
For the past several years I have spent all of December reading nothing but Christmas stories. Here it is already halfway through December and with the exception of the ones my critique partners wrote, I’ve read nothing! Between my husband’s health issues and a kitchen remodel there has been no time. I looked back over […]
The Power of Friendship
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24 A friend I’ve had since high school called me yesterday afternoon to let me know that she would be providing supper for me and my husband. You have no idea what a blessing […]
Here Comes the Bride
Jaycee Weaver, Andrea Boyd, and I all joined an anthology collection called Something Borrowed: Christmas Weddings Collection. It’s a story of five friends who each get a turn to wear a tiara from their sixth friend Ruth Ann (inspired by Angela Ruth Strong who couldn’t join our collection this year). As each friend navigates the relationship waters, […]
The Perks of Collection Writing + Giveaway (Guest Post by Teresa Tysinger)
Hey everybody! I’d like to introduce my dear friend and fellow author Teresa Tysinger. She’s got a great post for you today! As of now, she’s the only author in my collection team I’ve had the privilege to meet in person (though I’m praying that changes before long, because I LOVE these women). Here’s us […]
The Price of Dreams + #Giveaway
Y’all, the last book of the Faith & Fortune series is finally here. It’s a bittersweet time, happy that’s available for you to read and sad that it’s the last book. Seriously, what was I thinking? I should have made the series longer. (Lesson learned.) The Price of Dreams is the third book and features ballerina, […]
Book Recommendation – The Trouble With Love by Toni Shiloh
It’s Narelle here. Today I’m sharing with you my book recommendation for Inspy Romance author Toni Shiloh’s latest release, The Trouble With Love. Book 2 in Toni’s Faith & Fortune series, The Truth About Fame, releases next week on July 7, and I can’t wait to read it! Book Description for The Trouble With Love: […]
Things Authors have to Google (and other ways we research)
Google is a writer’s best friend – or at least it seems that way sometimes! I’ve researched everything from bread baking techniques (for Danielle in Summer to Remember) to how to embezzle money from a doctor’s office (Spring Fever). While we often pull from experience from former jobs, relationships, or current hobbies, sometimes we get […]
The Trouble With Love + #Giveaway
Y’all, I’m so excited to talk about my upcoming release today! The Trouble With Love is the first book in my new series: Faith & Fortune. I’me doing something a little different with this series bringing the heroines’ pov only and writing in first person point of view (I, me, my, etc). So far my early readers […]
What’s in a Name?
For as long as I could remember, I’ve been interested in names. Their meanings. Why parents pick certain names. Etc. As I got older and delved into the Word, I became fascinated with how God changed the names of those He called. When we encounter God, repent of our sins, He changes us. Not just […]